#black and native solidarity

[mos-twin-mattress]

its easy to fall into despair ab the state of the world, things are in fact grim. but we've made it through grim stuff before. we'll continue to make it through.

the road is long and hard, its going to take some doing to wade through it. i'm disheartened right now, i wont lie. i feel so low. im burnt out, im sickly, my disabilities are flaring, i've been having near constant delusions.

its hard to find joy, its hard to find any kind of happy to holdon to. i know im struggling to do that. ive been overpouring.

i really hope i find joy in life again... i really do.

for now i will throw myself relentlessly into fighting for Palestine, for Sudan, for Congo, for my fellow Black people, my fellow Natives. I will fight until my dying breath to get their voices heard!

We exist, and have existed. We will NOT be silenced!

[a-typical]

THE YEAR 1847 WAS AN extremely difficult one for the Irish people. Known as “Black 47,” this was the worst year of the famine in Ireland, where close to one million people were starving to death. Humanitarian aid came from around the world, but the unexpected generosity of the Choctaw Nation stands out, and began a bond between the two people that continues to this day.

The Choctaw Native Americans raised $170 of their own money—equivalent to thousands of dollars today— in aid to supply food for the starving Irish. This exemplifies the incredible generosity of the Choctaw people, because just 16 years before, they were forced by U.S. President Andrew Jackson to leave their ancestral lands and march 500 miles on the “Trail of Tears,” in terrible winter conditions. Many did not survive.

Today, the Irish people are still grateful for the generosity of the Choctaw people. A monument stands in Midleton’s Bailick Park as a tribute to the tribe’s charity during the Great Famine. Named “Kindred Spirits,” the magnificent memorial features nine giant stainless steel feathers, shaped into an empty bowl.

The creator, artist Alex Pentak, explained, “I wanted to show the courage, fragility and humanity that they displayed in my work.”

Beyond the monument, there are many other examples of the continued link between the Irish and Choctaw people. In 1990, several Choctaw leaders took part in the first annual Famine walk at Doolough in County Mayo; two years later, Irish commemoration leaders walked the 500 mile length of the Trail of Tears. A former Irish president is now an honorary Choctaw Chief. Most importantly, both Choctaw and Irish people now work together to provide assistance for people suffering from famine worldwide.

[realjaysumlin]

Biden to issue historic apology over federal Indian boarding schools - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/10/24/biden-set-apologize-native-americans-indian-boarding-schools/

I am one of these children who suffered from the hands of Christianity and whiteness. A fucking apology isn't worth a damn thing to me what I really want is for you evil ass cowards to drop your whiteness, or leave our fucking lands.

You dumb mother fucking people are still the problem to everyone living on earth today and there is no way in hell can you hide your shitty history.

[ladyimaginarium]

natives will straight up say "hey help us spread awareness about xyz" & white people will literally only say "fuck the police/acab" (& i mean. yes but that's not the Point) but never focus on how to actually help natives let alone compensate them for this shit that statistically impacts our communities severely. because once again you're making it All About You. you care more about hating someone than actually helping to support the community it affects let alone making their lives a little better.

[nthflower]

One thing pissing me so much is foreign people who says how delight is not good they tried thinking it would be good while eating just some shitty rose delight from some shitty Turkish store or something. This shit has hundreds of different textures and tastes and types you can't just say it is terrible with only eating one.

This is so specific I just saw again some people were like omg Edward from Narnia sold his family over this I tried it was so disappointing. overrated hehehihi shut up you never ate freshly made kadayıf delight straight from delight shop in delight shop street you would not understand.

[spilledmilkfkdies]

Other head canon related to the last one : Duman knows and will speak each of the other wizard mother tongues (Example:him and Angan making fun of Gantlos and pissing him of because he *knows* they are talking about him but he doesnt know what is being said) it probably ended up with them all having at least a decent graps on the other's languages.

YOU CAME BACK I'M SORRY I TOOK SO LONG

Here's a link for anyone wondering what ask this was originally about

Them all having different native languages is so shsjdjdnnd GOOD, even if I sometimes struggle with incorporating that into backstory writing. Just a me problem though, probably. But the main point still stands, I like the idea a lot and I think it can add to a bunch of things.

But also the whole part where like, languages change over time, and with them being very old it uhhhhh- Mmhhh headache, a thought for later.

Duman and Anagan doing a bit of not so sneaky conversing is top notch though, those shady bitches. They WOULD. They're so annoying smh. But also?? Them, and I mean the whole group rn, speaking each other's languages to varying levels of success, can be so sweet as well y'know?? Sometimes it just hits different to talk to someone in your own language.

[underwaterspiderbird]

Friendly reminder if you're Indigenous/Black/Brown in any way, you're not white. You're a POC, no if’s, and’s or but’s. If you're even a drop of BIPOC, you're BIPOC, not “white diluted by mud”. Blood Quantum is colonial horseshit meant to try and genocide us, so treat it like the load of baloney it is. You either are Black/Brown/Indigenous, or you're not. Our👏🏼 people 👏🏼do 👏🏼not 👏🏼come👏🏼 in 👏🏼parts. 👏🏼

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

[cyarsk52-20]

Trump Derangement Syndrome

if you voted for him you deserve all the horrible consequences you’ll get. You say derangement syndrome I say it’s not gaf about you and gaf about me and my black folks who are done saving your lying and backstabbing arssses!

[underwaterspiderbird]

AND don’t forget the lighter skin sibs or call them less black/brown or do ANY of that colonial genocide bullshit.

The amount of biracial and light skin ppl who get roles that are meant for dark black people is fucking insane. Hollywood is extremely obsessed with the lighter option because everyone favors it.

We don't want a Zendaya or a Amandla Sternberg. We want dark skin ppl. Give darker women and men the roles meant for them

[aethersea]

I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.

it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"

plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.

anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.

[papirouge]

...then leave me alone and shut up, then? I'm not a "debate" blog, you're not entitled to my precious time to address your pathetic frustration about a corny meme on the internet. There are plentiful of whiny whitefem blogs out there for that purpose.

And I literally quoted each part of your post to address all your points so miss me with that yOu dIdN't AdDreSs mY aRugMentS/yOu Dont kNow HoW tO dEbaTe". You're just one of those people who conflate their own refusal to acknowledge actual counterargument to the absence of counterargument..

And stop acting so shook about me calling me white identified when you literally acted like I was too dumb to know African slave owners were a thing and put into my mouth things that I never said. You don't like to be misjudged? Fine. Then keep that same energy when it comes to others. I just gave you a tease of your own medicine. Cope.

I called Black men "bums" "dusties" and "fucked up" and yet you only got offended when it came to White women (that I called "manipulative" and being able to lie. BIG DEAL.). Despite what I said about Black men, you didn't find relevant to've yet to call me a misandrist or "racist". Very interesting.... 🙃 Stop trying to justify yourself: your reaction speaks louder than your words. Go be a White woman WK elsewhere, bc that stuff will never fly with me.

I won't bother reading the rest of your essay bc it's getting ridiculous. You people will literally freak out at the slightest diss targeted at White women which ultimately proves my point ever further.

You're "White identified" no more bestie : I officially assign you as a full on honorary White woman for your outstanding ability to make yourself a victim out of the most ridiculous shit AND make everything about yourself. Congratulations.

[realjaysumlin]

I'm tired of these shit white people, aren't you? Join me in the unification of Black Indigenous solidarity. Let's give them a taste of their own poison.

[ladyimaginarium]

new course i'll& be taking !! ✨

[sharpth1ng]

Ive already posted this in my server, so you may see it twice, but In case you don't see it there im posting it here too.

Im assuming most of you have seen the news about the us election. Honestly im feeling nothing less than devastated, and i would assume Americans are feeling ten times worse. Im so fucking sorry to you all, and I know that doesn't help at all. I feel angry, hopeless, and sad as fuck, and i dont know how to comfort anyone or advocate for the hope i think we deserve.

What I can do is remind you all who you come from.

Women, queer people, disabled people, indigenous people, black people, new immigrants- anyone who experiences marginalization- we have been through this before. Many times. So many lives have been unjustly lost and our rights have been trampled on over and over, and we shouldnt have to be dealing with any of that still in 2024. It feels insane that im even having to write this post right now.

But even with that crushing history, repeating itself over and over, we haven't been silenced. If anything we've gotten louder. We've been having mainstream conversations about oppression and liberation in the past few years that were completely undiscussed when I was a kid. The vocal support for trans people alone, even with the rise of transphobia, is unprecedented.

None of this is meant to tell you that it's alright, or that it's not that bad, because it is that bad. But what I'm telling you is that its been this bad before, only this time we're louder than we ever have been before and we'll be louder still next time. There are more of us than there ever have been before, and if they couldn't take us all out when there were fewer of us they wont manage it this time.

There were drag shows happening in gay bars when it was still illegal to be gay at all. There were Natives preserving language and knowledge out of residential schools, and black people inventing whole new types of art and resistance while they were still being actively enslaved, and those are just a few examples. The point is that we dont stop, we never have. We will keep making art, finding love, and joy, being fucking loud and fighting for each other.

It's ok to hurt, to be angry and scared. Let yourself feel all of those things because its the only rational response to this.

But don't let it shut you down. Your history is one of resilience, survival, and compassion. We're so much more than the oppression we face and we always have been.

Reach out to the people you love and tell them you fucking love them. Make plans to see them. Gather with your community and organize to support each other, find ways to protect each other, and above all else don't stop looking for joy. Don't stop making art. Don't stop showing compassion.

Solidarity is the most important thing we have right now, so don't give up on it.

I don't know how to close this message really, but i want to repeat I'm not telling you to have hope, I'm not telling you it's not so bad. What I am telling you is that you're stronger than you think. You come from strength, you come from people who faced odd that seemed insurmountable so that you could be here today.

If they couldn't take us out before they wont succeed now. We're only going to get louder, angrier and stronger. And when the tide swings back in the other direction, like it always has in the past, they better be fucking grateful that most of us will be fighting for equality instead of revenge.

[doberbutts]

Want to thank you for your time and energy in general. I’ve been a tmoc on this website for a decade and the few other tmoc I’ve come across have always been too nervous to say anything about our experiences publicly.

I hope the rad//fems and their infantile ideology aren’t doing too much for you, but I would imagine they’d target you because You’re Right. You’re Right and they’re scared that us talking about our stuff will make it harder to recruit ppl into their cult. It makes it even more obvious who is a sockpuppet te//rf.

Once people realize there is a lot more masculinity[+ femininity] outside of the patriarchal/colonial kind they’ll realize what a joke ideology it actually is.

Saying this as someone who was a rad//fem when I was in like… middleschool lmao. Then I grew up… into a man who loves other men 😝😝

You don’t have to publish if you don’t want to. I understand it’s like a hornets nest on this website, but I wanted you to to hear the message anyway 🩵🩵🩵

Trans Men Of Color rise up - solidarity my brother, it is good that you got out of that toxic cycle and have embraced yourself and who you are.

I find people in general on this website are very unwilling to understand a viewpoint that differs from their own, and how that difference may shape someone's thought process. Truly, most of the people who Get Me are A: other black people specifically black queers and B: nonblack queer poc who similarly are tired of biting their tongue all the time to keep the peace. I think it's very difficult for many white people to understand how not being white changes one's entire perception of gender and gender roles, and many simply aren't prepared to hear it even if they think they are.

You know what I see a lot of that in? Indigenous genders- ohhhhhhh my god are people (usually white but other non-Natives too) simply not willing to understand that indigenous gender is not so easily defined as Western society would have you believe. Cultural genders really require these folks to have an open mind and they just aren't willing to bother with it, so they still want to sort everyone into "man" or "woman" and occasionally "nonbinary but really woman-lite".